Think About Using A Silk Screen Printing Process
When a company wants to print an image on a t-shirt, there are several ways to do it. One way is to use a screen printing process. Using this process comes with many benefits, making it good to use for clothing, creating art prints, printing on balloons, and many other things.
Screen Printing
The printing process is also called silk screening. The first part of the process involves creating a design. The design is transferred to a stencil, which is then transferred to a mesh screen. The screen is laid on the clothing, and then ink is squeegeed onto the screen and spread along the stencil. Depending on the design, each t-shirt may go through more than one screen printing, so the whole design ends up on the t-shirt. This would happen if the design has more than one color in different places on it. Each color would have its stencil. The stencil leaves open the areas to be printed on and masks off all the rest of the space.
Durability
One benefit of silk screen printing is that the image is very durable. That is because you can put a fairly heavy layer of ink on the material. That heavy layer will ensure that the image lasts longer because more ink is placed on the surface. More ink means a longer time to fade.
Cost Effective
Silk screening is a very cost-effective process. That lets the company doing the printing maximize its profits. The longest part of the process is the initial setup, and once that is done, it's easy to do a large-scale printing run, printing out a high volume of product. It doesn't matter if you are printing things manually or by machine.
Bright Color
The silk screen process leaves a bright, vibrant color being. The way that color is laid down separately, drying in between, means that the colors will be untouched by the colors applied before or after. That leaves clean, crisp, vibrant colors behind with no muddying of the pattern.
If you want to get into the t-shirt printing process, you need to look further into the silk screen printing process. It is easy to set up and has a low start-up cost. The equipment isn't costly, and much of it can be reused. It can help you get your business off the ground or allow you to grow and expand into other areas.
